The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-11-02
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

in Chicago.
Two.thiIds of The town of Spencer,
RoauC county, West Virginia, was destroyed
by fire on Friday last.
There are six known candidates for the
vacant Probate Judgcship of Grccnvillc.
with some others to hear from.
Tie American bark Eyvor was wrecked
on Swan Island October IL. Motives were
lost.
Tho American schooner Scotia, from
Mobile TO Cuba, lumber laden, has been
towvd into Pensacola dismantlvd.
The case of the Chicago Anarchists las
been argued in the I nitcd States Supreme
Count, and it is now under adyiscmcut.
Engineer Harris and Conductor Rcyillc,
of the AirLinc train that recently collidci
with another, have thus far cludcd arrest.
The Rev. Luther X. probst has resigned
the pastoratc Of the Wentworth street
LuthctuM Church in Charleston, To take
effect on the t>t December.
The latest evidence touching the holo.
caus, at The Theatre Coiniquc, Paris, shows
that there was criminal negligence ON the
| par. Of the managers Of the theatre.
A. salt Lake City. Utah, out of a vcnirc
Of seventeen jurors for civil cases all were
Niormons, and twelve refused 10 take the
oHli required by the Tucker hdmunds law.
a Tampa, FIl., special says the outlook
is NOR" encouraging. Eight new cases
yesterday and three deaths, including
Fathc. pctcrm0n, a Catholic priest.
The Toronto, Canada, newspapers are
very severe o: Mr.. Chamberlain for the
hostile attitude he has taken with regard
10 the fisheries dispute.
The Grst meeting in New York Of the
American party was held last night in the
Cooper Union. There were only $50 per-
sons present.
Henry Martin JAckso.e cashier Of the
United states sub.trcaSury in New York.
has fled to Canada. Ills accounts show a;
deficiency of $4,000.
President Cleveland and Governor Hill
have cich contributed TO the Democratic
campaign fund iii New York-at least so
says the S,ut.
AZ Huntsville, Ala, the Southern Forcs
Try Congress has adjourned siac die after
Interesting addresses by Ms. Ellen Couli
Long, Of Florida, and Or. Chas. MIohr, of
Mobile.
III good inside information TO the
eirrc' 'tat the Georgia Central Ruilroad
will mot sell its Port Royal and Augusta
line although i may part with the rest of
IL, ,'ro'i.l systcm.
p i' -N'. 1 vi fifffI'tJN IDIllSStIS Special
say, Gyas / ronciycd by King leopold that
= '.ry inl advanced about 80 miles since
l'ui i"o@ ~, August %. He is in good
uctIir.
le .rdav The Royal Clyde Yacht CLUB
rcs.5,eltD challenge again for the Amer
icts cap I'M the name of Mr.. Charles
HWoy.. The ucw champion Will he a cut
ter.
Tie first instalmcnt of fifty per cent. of
the capital stock OF the GrccnvillG Savings
Bank has been paid in. The Bank will
begin receiving deposits the last of the
week.
Severe gales arc reported from Milwau.
ke", Chicago, Marquette, Mich, Buffalo.
\. y. and Cleveland, Ohio. A few
houses were blown down, some trees up.
rooted, aHd other damage done.
Charles /. Phillips, President OF the dc,
iuuct Columbian Bank, of philadelphia,
has ..It the country, having sailed for
Have" from Ncw York Saturday morning.
His departure was u general surprise.
Alc,cgram was received at the Washinn.
leu haiidc Hospital Bureau from Dcputy
Coll car Spencer, saying that there wcrC
som" new cases Of yellow fever, but nc
deaths, since last report.
The municipal election in Bullimor,
called oui the heaviest vote pollcd in many
yeas The election Of LatrObc, the Demo
craft" c, uditatc fer Mayor, Is assured by =
decisive majority.
John !%iiston, the confidential secretary
OF j. { hourot. President of the Lima, O..
National Bank, has disappeared. He is q
dciHuitcr for several Thousand dollars, sup
pose! to have been lost in gambling.
The grand jury has ignored thc bill
against Timothy Coughiin, the section
ma. cr, who was held in Jail on tue cur0
ner iu'y verdict us negligent Of his dutic,
ah" as mus causing the Chatswolth disaster
~ I%ronton, Ohio, yesterday, a battery OF
sixteen boilers, in the Lawrence Iron
WORKS, exploded, killing four men and
WoLn"ing twenty persons. Parts OF tho
boilcra were blown half a mile away.
The fourth registration, made ncccssar r,
by an error in dates by the Board of EslI
nusc, has been held in Brooklyn. There
wcrr H,Gl3 names added, making the tota.
~ US against 121, 1Ol in the last Prcsi
dental year.
y reign of terror prevails in Santiago do
Cuba, owing TO the continuance of earth
qnnNc shocks. Since The great shock or
tue 23d VT. there have been 30 slightcI
ones, and $4,000 people have left Their
hou IS.
DR. Condron, of Danbury, Iowa, killed
himself Tuesday by placing a gun, to his
head and ~dischmging il by means of a
string attached to the trigger. lie was
charged by a certain woman with trying to
commit an abortion on her. lie denied hcr
story, but ii caused him much distress.
AT New York the Directors Of the Cot.
ton Oil Trust elected j. II. FIaglcr prcsi-
dent and the following trustees: j. II. Flag.
Ter, New York; n. X. Fairbanks. Chicago.
and }. G. Moss, New York. The other
trustees arc: Il. U~rquchart, j. Aldigc. W.
f.. Anderson, j. ii. Kendall, j. l.. Macau.
ley and John Scott.
The New York District Attorney has
presented to the grand jury papers in a
criminal case for grand larceny against
Russell Sage and Jay Gould, brought by
bondholdcrs of The Kansas Pacific Com.
pany. The grand jury returned the docu.
mcnis 20 thc District Attorney for ~inycstl.
gaticn.
In Tcrrc Bonuc Parish, La, negro
strikers have taken possession of a planta.